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The cover of race records catalogue of Victor Talking Machine Company. Race records is a term for 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s. [1] They primarily contained race music, comprising various African-American musical genres, blues, jazz, and gospel music, rhythm and blues and also comedy. These ...
Bob Mosley describes the circumstances as follows: "In 1996, Peter Lewis picked me up along the side of a San Diego freeway where I was living, to tell me a ruling by San Francisco Judge Garcia gave Moby Grape their name back. I was ready to go to work again" [6] in relation to the circumstances ultimately leading to the recording of True Blue ...
He’s also a deceptively subtle writer who can cloak pointed or sobering messages within the band’s good-time vibe.” [6] Estrin was born in San Francisco, California in 1949, and fell in love with blues after his sister presented him with Ray Charles’ The Genius Sings The Blues when he was 12. He began playing harmonica at age 15, and by ...
US Most-Played Race Records 1946 #7, Race Records #2 for 2 weeks, 25 total weeks, 54 points 8: Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (vocal Charles Brown) "Driftin' Blues" [20] Philo 112: September 14, 1945 () December 1945 () US Billboard Most-Played Juke Box Race Records 1946 #8, US #2 for 1 week, 23 total weeks, 48 points 9
San Diego Jewish Men's Choir; San Diego Men's Chorus; San Diego Symphony; The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers; Sever Your Ties; The Shambles (band) The Silent Comedy; Skelpin; Sleeping People; Slightly Stoopid; The Soft Pack; Some Girls (California band) Something Like Silas; Soul-Junk; Souljahz; Sprung Monkey; Steam Powered Giraffe; Stick Figure ...
The San Diego quartet originally known as Mighty Joe Young completed its lineup in 1989 when bassist Robert DeLeo invited his guitar-playing brother Dean DeLeo to join his band with singer Scott ...
In June 1949, at his suggestion, the magazine changed the name of the Race Records chart to Rhythm & Blues Records. Wexler wrote, "' Race' was a common term then, a self-referral used by blacks... On the other hand, 'Race Records' didn't sit well... I came up with a handle I thought suited the music well–'rhythm and blues'... [It was] a label ...
By then, the packed crowd had listened to Jewel, whose debut album was released in 1995, and Blues Traveler, whose first hits began playing on the radio (yes, the radio, not streaming!) in 1990.